The Great Mosque Builders (part 3): The Sultan Hassan Mosque

This is the third episode of The Great Mosque Builders, a series on seven monuments and seven builders across roughly a thousand years, each one an answer to the one before. This episode takes the two that sit at the heart of the story, and they make a strange matched pair: two men, two centuries and a continent apart, each trying to outbuild death. The first is Sultan Hasan of Cairo, a Mamluk ruler crowned as a boy, deposed, restored, and forever controlled by the hard men around him. In the...